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With Microsoft and Yahoo announcing they would begin using Bing exclusively for serving search results across both networks, a real push is on for webmasters and SEO firms to get optimized and ranking well for Bing now!

I must admit, in the past I have never really focused on either Yahoo or Bing but from what I understood they were more responsive to "on page" optimization. Things like title tags, internal links, internal anchors etc. After a little "googling"...

A project I am working on requires a .mobi version of the web site to run along side the main website. This .mobi version is lightweight with very little graphcs, no javascript, and very light CSS to ensure a nice user experience for user surfing on their phone.

The first challenge was to detect if the user is on a mobile browser and if so, automatically redirect them to the .mobi version of the website. This site is fairly high traffic so this check should only be performed the...

With Internet explorer losing more and more of its user base to rival browsers like Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera one would think miscrosoft would have changed there ways for IE8 to render modern web tools like CSS3 properly (or even at all).

When IE8 was released and it was another huge disappointment for the web coding community I had thought we would be stuck for another 4-5 years coding our websites for 3 different flavors of IE plus all the standards compliant browsers.....

Over the past 6 years that I have had the pleasure of being a domain name registrar there is 1 circumstance that always leaves me feeling handcuffed and even frightened. Domain Name renewals.

It is not uncommon for companies to not renew their domains in time, I recall back in 1999 Microsoft had lost their passport.net domain causing many of their online services not to function for many users. Again in 2003 Microsoft lost its hotmail.co.uk domain name. In both cases, they ended...

Canonicalization is a term you will likely come across while researching Search engine optimization techniques.

Canonicalization is defined as a process for converting data that has more than one possible representation into a "standard", "normal", or canonical form.

So in simple terms, relevant to SEO (Search Engine Optimization) its a process to give a web page that may have several URL's a single fixed URL.

For example:
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